is that you Bhante?All that is needed is a clay pipe and an eye patch (me matie) and you would be a pastaferian monk!

This offering maybe right, or wrong, but it is one, the other, both, or neither!Blog,-Some Suttas Translated,Ajahn Chah."Others will misconstrue reality due to their personal perspectives, doggedly holding onto and not easily discarding them; We shall not misconstrue reality due to our own personal perspectives, nor doggedly holding onto them, but will discard them easily. This effacement shall be done."

rule 1 - don't get him drunk then give him a sword sending him off to a busy area!rule 2 - you need a rule 2? just stick with rule 1! although I am more than sure our pastafarian monk wouldn't do, or get caught up in that!

This offering maybe right, or wrong, but it is one, the other, both, or neither!Blog,-Some Suttas Translated,Ajahn Chah."Others will misconstrue reality due to their personal perspectives, doggedly holding onto and not easily discarding them; We shall not misconstrue reality due to our own personal perspectives, nor doggedly holding onto them, but will discard them easily. This effacement shall be done."

"I cannot tellA small part of the splendid lore which brokeFrom Buddha's lips: I am a late-come scribeWho love the Master and his love of men,And tell this legend, knowing he was wise,But have not wit to speak beyond the booksAnd time hath blurred their script and ancient sense,Which once was new and mighty, moving all.A little of that large discourse I knowWhich Buddha spake on the soft Indian eve...

While our Lord taught, and, while he taught, who heard --Though he were stranger in the land, or slave,High caste or low, come of the Aryan blood,Or Mlech or Jungle-dweller -- seemed to hearWhat tongue his fellows talked. Nay, outside thoseWho crowded by the river, great and small, The birds and beasts and creeping things -- 'tis writ --Had sense of Buddha's vast embracing loveAnd took the promise of his piteous speech;So that their lives -- prisoned in shape of ape,Tiger, or deer, shagged bear, jackal, or wolf,Foul-feeding kite, pearled dove, or peacock gemmed.Squat toad, or speckled serpent, lizard, bat;Yea, or of fish fanning the river-waves --Touched meekly at the skirts of brotherhood..."-Sir Edwin Arnold

"He, the Blessed One, is indeed the Noble Lord, the Perfectly Enlightened One;He is impeccable in conduct and understanding, the Serene One, the Knower of the Worlds;He trains perfectly those who wish to be trained; he is Teacher of gods and men; he is Awake and Holy. "--------------------------------------------"The Dhamma is well-expounded by the Blessed One, Apparent here and now, timeless, encouraging investigation, Leading to liberation, to be experienced individually by the wise. "